Soliciting and Incorporating Student Feedback
About this Workshop:
While CTECs provide useful information, their timing and the feedback they give is often generalized and do not address specific questions you or the students might have about teaching and learning methods. Therefore, soliciting feedback on your teaching during a course is useful for many reasons. Not only can you gauge whether your teaching methods are and are not working, but you can tailor the evaluation form to the specific needs of your classroom and your discipline. This workshop will consider the components of evaluation forms, gathering and incorporating actionable feedback in your teaching, and other mechanics of soliciting evaluations from your students.
Facilitators:
Aisha Valiulla is a 4th year at the History Department and the 2020-21 Teaching Coordinator for the department's Graduate Teaching Committee. Her research is focused on the literary legacies of Indian Ocean trade and cross-cultural exchange during the late antique era (900--1400). She has been a TA at Northwestern for two years and is particularly interested in thinking about ways to facilitate community within the classroom, to engage students through both active learning strategies and lectures, and methods of self-evaluation by which TAs can gauge the effectiveness of their teaching.
Warren Snead is a fourth year PhD candidate in the Political Science department. His research examines the many ways in which the U.S Supreme Court influences Congressional politics and the development of public policy at the federal level. In the classroom, Warren has served as a Teaching Assistant for Constitutional Law, Dilemmas of American Power, and the American Presidency. Before coming to Northwestern, Warren taught history, civics, and geography at a middle school in Virginia Beach, VA.